I do have modem access, i.e., I am able to initialize, dial out, etc. I saw your post on that issue, but I am not sure that it is relevant. Thanks for the followup nonetheless. I will still monkey with that value and see if it changes anything.
Cheers, John On Tuesday, March 5, 2002, at 02:09 PM, Nick Texidor wrote: > John, not sure if this is the same troubles that I ran into or not... > > but here are a couple of things that helped me get to the bottom of > it... > > 1) Is your modem showing up in dmesg? > > 2) In kppp, go into your modem setup option, and change the Modem > Commands so that the Pre-Init and Post-Init delays are up to 100 instead > of 50. (This was the thing that got kppp dialing for me) > > Nick > > > > On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 08:44, John C. Tull wrote: >> After banging my head to build a kernel with support for both scsi (why >> can this not be in the default install kernel?) and aty128 this past >> weekend (from install cd, mount /sdc5 /mnt then mount -t hfs /dev/sdb6 >> /mnt/mnt <-- interesting trick to get files from boot partition to hfs >> partition for BootX), I was able to fire up Mandrake 8.2b1. >> >> The issue that kills me now is ppp access. I set up my network for both >> ppp and ethernet (for local filesharing only). When I try to set up >> kppp >> to access via script or terminal (required by my .edu provider; no PAP, >> etc.), kppp runs the script then tries "Logging in to the Network...", >> then drops the connection. I have used the noauth pppd command with no >> success also. >> >> The detailed error report shows "couldn't find interface ppp0: no such >> device". The modem itself is working fine, btw. From linuxconf... >> Networking... I disabled the eth0 interface with same result. BUT there >> was no ppp0 interface... I am guessing that there needs to be, but I >> thought the installer would have handled that. If there should be, what >> values are needed besides interface: ppp0? >> >> Any clues would be appreciated. >> >> > -- > Nick Texidor > Technical Director > Webbods Pty Ltd > > eml: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: www.webbods.com.au > tel: 0414 810284 > aol: texinick > icq: 3900008 > > >
